[–] apoptosis15 0 points 11 points 11 points (+11|-0) ago
This is the Dunning-Kruger effect:
a cognitive bias in which relatively unskilled persons suffer illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability to be much higher than it really is. Dunning and Kruger attributed this bias to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to recognize their own ineptitude and evaluate their own ability accurately. Their research also suggests corollaries: highly skilled individuals may underestimate their relative competence and may erroneously assume that tasks which are easy for them are also easy for others.
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[–] intrepiddemise 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
In my 35 years on this earth, I have yet to meet a single person that believed themselves to be "average". This was especially true of those few people who actually claimed to be "average." Almost everyone, in my experience, thinks themselves special in some way (if they engage in introspection at all). We all want to be unique, at least in the West.
[–] ginganinja 0 points 8 points 8 points (+8|-0) ago
My dad and I have a saying, "there are two types of people in the world: those who don't know that they don't know, and those who know that they don't know."
[–] ryry117 2 points 3 points 5 points (+5|-2) ago
So fucking true. It's also true that most crazies and fools would back down if the wise just held their ground against them and proved them wrong with facts but instead their afraid of them or of offending them so they slunk about quietly saying nothing letting them spread their insanity to others.
[–] Spark_Plugg 1 point 6 points 7 points (+7|-1) ago
I think they're just smart enough not to wade through the shit
[–] ryry117 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
This is also a problem, the wise assume the idiot will never get anywhere with their thinking, so no one speaks up, except for the idiot who keeps shouting, and then law makers agree with them because no one is speaking against them and they want them off their backs.
[–] CobraStallone 2 points 5 points 7 points (+7|-2) ago (edited ago)
if the wise just held their ground against them and proved them wrong with facts but instead their afraid of them or of offending them so they slunk about quietly saying nothing letting them spread their insanity to others.
It's funny, innit? I mean you don't want to waste your time "debating" someone who has clearly shown no inclination or capacity to learn, or be intellectually honest, or meet you half-way. There's also the severe anti-intellectual sentiment, showing people that they are wrong, and why, is an asshole move in pop culture. In fact think of this, confronting someone who is in a cult that is based on superstitious nonsense would be seen as a righteous intervention, but change religion with cult (which in some cases boils down to just number of adherents), and then it's suddenly offensive and morally wrong.
But on the other hand, if reasonable people would just get their shit together and were a louder voice in society we would not be in most of the messes we are in right now.
[–] Climhazzard 1 point 2 points 3 points (+3|-1) ago
"Don't argue with idiots. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience."
[–] Ooga_Booga 1 point 0 points 1 point (+1|-1) ago
The wise are easily defeated by the howling of the idiot masses. No amount of wisdom or logic can overcome absolute fanatical ignorance. We live in a time of bread and circuses.
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[–] HenryDavidThoreau 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
One man's fool is another man's president.
[–] chance_pictures 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
The more certain you are about your reality, the less willing and able you are to consider other perspectives. The less certain you are, the more you listen and the more you say "I don't know."
Action through certainty and inaction through uncertainty.
[–] nul 0 points 30 points 30 points (+30|-0) ago
Not even going to give Russel credit for that?
[–] jerrykantrell 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
For a second I was all... Who the hell is Russel? Isn't this Bertrand Russel? I am an idiot.